The Making Sunday Happen Podcast

This week, we welcome Nate Bramsen from ROCK International and Creative Arts Director Phil Bowdle. Nate is an evangelist that travels around the world sharing the Gospel. It is not uncommon for Nate to speak dozens of times over a month and be anywhere in the world. He is the Executive Director of Rock International - a great ministry that serves and equips the church with tools to reach and disci...

This week, we welcome back Seth Muse. Seth served as the Communications Director at Hope Fellowship in Frisco, TX. He is a Communications consultant and host of the Seminary of Hard Knocks Podcast. Seth and Carl discuss the Curse of Success. How Success as a church or ministry can actually breed things like Laziness, Arrogance, Confusion and other things. We’ll dive into that today. SHOW NOTES

This week on the podcast, we welcome our friend Seth Muse to the show. You might know Seth from the world of Church Communications. He hosts the Seminary of Hard Knocks Podcast and the Instagood Show on Facebook. This week we’re talking about ways to make your Worship Experience last all week. How you can repurpose and cut up content from your Worship Service into small parts and redeliver that co...

This week on the podcast, we welcome Paul Richards. Paul hosted the Worship Summit Live conference in July. Great online event for Worship Leaders and Church Media folks. Paul is the Chief Streaming Officer at the Streamgeeks - an online platform that helps churches and other clients with Livestreaming and Digital Experiences. Today, we are going to be walking through Paul’s book “Helping your Chu...

This week on the show, we’ll dive into Part Two of our conversation with Adobe AfterEffects Master Trent Armstrong. Trent is the Lead Motion Designer at Igniter Media. If you missed Part One of my conversation with Trent - be sure to Watch Episode 259 . We talked with Trent last week about his experiences at Igniter and we started to dive into things like Fractal Noise, Set Mattes, Gradient Wipes...

This week on the podcast, we welcome Motion Graphics Legend Trent Armstrong. Trent is the Lead Motion Designer at Igniter Media. If you create video content at your church, we’re going to dive into a quick Adobe AfterEffects class with Trent. A lot of folks are scared of AfterEffects - citing it is really complicated. And granted it does take some time to learn, you can get there. Trent and Carl t...

This week on the podcast, we continue our discussion with Gary Molander on the topic of Pursuing Christ, Creating Art. We're talking about Purpose, the difference in being a Creative and an Artist, your Identity, your Pursuit, Authority, Creative Blocks, and more. We’ve dive straight back into my conversation with Gary in just a minute. SHOW NOTES

This Week on the podcast, we welcome a regular on the SALT stage, and a ministry veteran – Gary Molander Gary is a great guy. We’re going to be talking with Gary this week and next week all about Pursuing Christ and Creating Art, which is the title of his 2011 book. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be talking about Purpose, the difference in being a Creative and an Artist, your Identity, your Pursui...

This week on the podcast, we welcome Daniel Gil and Meredith Andrews to the podcast. Daniel has served as a Worship Leader and motivational speaker. He is also an incredible athlete and competes on the show American Ninja Warrior. We also welcome Singer/Songwriter Meredith Andrews to the show. We put both of these interviews together because we talked to Daniel and Meredith both the importance of...

Today on the podcast, we welcome a member of our Twelve:Thirty Team - Shawn Reece. Shawn works on our team to provide design and video direction to our custom media projects to dozens of churches every month. He has experience in communications, marketing, video, filmmaking and more. He has been on staff a some larger churches including Faith Promise in Knoxville. We are talking with Shawn today a...

Today on the podcast, we welcome the CEO of Minno - Erick Goss to the show. Erick is a former Amazon Marketing Executive - he worked directly under Jeff Bezos. He played a key role in the very first Amazon Ebook and Print on Demand Business. If you have purchased an Ebook on Amazon - Erick’s team created the platform to do that. He now serves as the CEO of Minno. Minno has done a great job of cura...

Today on the podcast, we welcome Alan Smith. Alan is the Communications Arts Pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in Columbus, GA. Today we are going to talk about how to remove distractions and enhance your graphics for worship. We do not want to be a distraction. So what is a distraction when it comes to our graphics and how to do we remove those distractions so that people can engage with our messa...

This week on the podcast, I welcome my friend Kenny Jahng. We’re going to be talking all about how to use video to Reach People online, because - video is the name of the game online. Images are great, text is fine - but video is taking your online presence - both in your worship experiences and in your social media engagement to the next level. SHOW NOTES

Today on the podcast, we’re going to share a talk from Carl Barnhill and Luke McElroy from NRB - the National Religious Broadcasters Convention a few months ago. The talk is all about Podcasting. How to start one, how to grow a podcast, how to turn your church’s content into a podcast - lots of great information and how your church or ministry can repurpose or take your Worship Experience beyond S...

Our 250th Episode Special! Can you believe it!? We've been bringing you fresh podcasts every week for over 5 years! We have some really big guests for this episode of the show. Worship Leader, Songwriter, Christian Music Artist Matt Maher . Author of The Road Back to You - An Enneagram Journey of Self Discovery - Ian Morgan Cron . And if you’re a baseball fan, you might remember this guy - former...

This week on the podcast, we continue our look into ProPresenter 7 and how to make the most out of the software for your church. We welcome Renewed Vision Marketing Director Cody Patterson. Where last week, Brad Weston gave us the origin story of Renewed Vision and the theory behind Pro7, Cody dives into the specific features of the software and walks through how to use the new interface. TOPICS C...

This week on the podcast, we welcome the Founder of Renewed Vision and ProPresenter creator Brad Weston. We talked with Brad about how ProPresenter came to be and how you can use the software to its fullest potential at your church. TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE: - The Origin Story of Renewed Vision and ProPresenter - How ProPresenter has been used by Houses of Worship as well as companies like A...

In this Bonus Episode of the Podcast, we welcome back Church Media Consultant Phil Cooke. Phil has some great insight into how to lead your team through uncharted territory. What does the new normal of Leading our Team look like? TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE: How does my credibility as a Leader matter more than ever right now? How important is it to ditch my assumptions as a leader and admit whe...

This week, we are talking to Zach Synder and Caleb Weidman. These are two of the founders of Blackbar, an online ministry dedicated to empowering churches to reach their communities with digital tools. They have released some great videos helping churches navigate Livestreaming, Communications, and more. Zach is the Video Director at Lifehouse Church, and over the past 7 years, he's lead teams in...

In this Bonus Episode of the podcast, we get an update from Matt Freeman and Alex Lyons from the South Carolina Baptist Convention. Matt is the Associate Director of Worship and Music. Alex is the Creative Director for the convention. We got an update from these guys on how the over 2,000 churches across the state of South Carolina are welcoming people back to their church buildings and locations....

This week on the podcast, we welcome Arron Hart and Dan Griffin. Arron is the Communications Director at CityView Bible Church in Round Rock, TX. We’re doing a case study with Arron on how CityView has done Church Online. We’ll walk through what’s on their website and why, how they have recorded their services, their process, the results they have seen and more. CityView has really done it well an...

Today, we welcome back to the podcast, Kyle Kutter from the Life Church team. We’re going to really dive into Church Online Platform today. We are talking with Kyle about how you can use it, how you can enhance your user experience on the platform, some ideas for engaging your viewers and more. We really hope today’s episode will give you lots of ideas and will help you. SHOW NOTES

This week we welcome Marc Gawith from Switcher Studio to the podcast. Switcher Studio is basically a switcher in your pocket. This is a mobile solution to connect 9 different sources and live switch those sources from your phone or iPad. You can hook in cameras, a computer with your Presentation software like ProPresenter or MediaShout, or other inputs to create your Live Worship Experience on the...

This week on the podcast, we welcome Jason Moore. Jason is an author, speaker and worship coach. He is the author of 10 books, his latest From Franchise to Local Dive is out now. He is the co-founder of Midnight Oil Productions and is a creativity consultant for numerous denominations. We have shifted our podcast schedule around to bring you the most relevant content as we are still in the middle...

This week, we talk to Tyler Smith, Co-Founder and CEO of Text in Church. Tyler and the team at Text in Church are passionate about helping churches thrive and communicate to their members and guests using text and email. Through the podcast, you'll learn three effective strategies for how to effectively reach your community during uncertain times. STRATEGY #1: The Online Attendance Bump - How...